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Birth:          ABT 1058 Pays d'Auge, Normandy
Death:          AFT Jan 1121 Worthen, Forden, Shropshire, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I02011
Roger Corbet. Alive at least between 1080 & 1122. May have fought at the Battle of 
Hastings. Held 24 manors in Shropshire in 1086 (Domesday Survey).

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The following material was excerpted from The Corbet Study Group, J.C. Nobel, online 
at
http://website.lineone.net/~corbett_group/First/people.htm:

The Anglo Norman Corbets by Barbara Coulton

Roger fitz Corbet's largest manor was Worthen, north of Rea Brook: its 14½ hides 
supported men-at-arms as well as villagers. His other twenty-four manors included 
Yockleton, Westbury and Wattlesborough to the north and Pontesbury to the east of 
Worthen; further east lay his brother's chief manor of Longden. The site which later 
became the caput of the Corbet barony is not mentioned in early records, but it will be 
as well to review at this point what has been written of Cause - the first known 
reference to which occurs some fifty years after the Domesday Survey. It has already 
been pointed out that Corbet was probably associated with the Pays d'Auge. Later 
documents testify to the presence of the family in that area: holding land at Crocy in 
Calvados; donating land to the abbey of St-Martin and Ste Barbara at Ste-Barbe-en-
Auge.12 Most accounts of the family follow R.W.Eyton in locating the family in another 
part of Normandy, the Pays de Caux. Eyton asserts this as a fact, without citing 
original sources. He was following an idea of J.B.Blakeway, but Blakeway was by no 
means so definite: "what seems nearly certain is, that the family settled in the Pais de 
Caux." He gives no references for this supposition. The source he uses for an early 
Corbet lineage, the Histoire du Cambray et du Cambresis par Jean le Carpentier, 
Leyden 1664, deals with another branch of the family, and there is no reference to the 
Pays de Caux.13 What seems to be at work is a wish to derive the place-name 
Caus/Cause from Caux, without any good evidence.

Note: In order to play it safe, I have the father Hugh of both Pays de Caux and Pays 
d'Auge.

Parents
DE CORBET Robert (ABT 1033 - BEF 1086)
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Siblings
DE CORBET Roger (ABT 1058 - AFT Jan 1121)
DE CORBET Robert (ABT 1070 - AFT 1135)

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
DE CORBET William (ABT 1080 - AFT 1136)

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